A Chamberlain's Worcester Painted and Parcel Gilt Porcelain Dinner Service

First Half 19th Century

comprising 34 dinner plates; 18 soup plates; 2 covered vegetable tureens; 2 covered sauce tureens; 1 covered handled tureen with an underplate and 3 serving platters of various sizes, some examples with impressed or transfer-printed Chamberlain's Worcester marks to the underside; 61 items total.
Length of longest serving platter 20 1/2 inches.

Property Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of The San Diego Museum of Art

One soup plate with partial crack; one soup plate with a small edge crack; one soup plate with a repaired break to the rim; one soup plate with a small edge crack and a chip to the underside with an associated area of repair; two soup plates with a single edge chip each; two soup plates with two edge chips to the undersides. One dinner plate with minor edge crack. Two dinner plates with an edge chip to the undersides and associated areas of repair; four dinner plates with two edge chips to the underside and two associated areas of repair; one dinner plate with an edge crack and an edge chip with an associated area of repair to the underside; one dinner plate with 6 repaired edge chips to the underside; two dinner plates with numerous repaired edge chips to the undersides; one dinner plate with four minor edge chips. One sauce tureen with a heavily repaired lid and minor edge chips to the base; other sauce tureen with several minor edge chips to the base. Large tureen with sizeable area of loss to the underside of the rim. Light surface wear in the form of rubbing and instances of loss to the painted and parcel gilt decoration throughout consistent with age and use. Scattered, minor edge chips throughout.

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